On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 09:55, Thomas Beale wrote: > Andrew, I really think you need to consider doing some design work, > instead of providing endless simplistic responses to technical > questions, which in general are non-trivial to solve properly.
Although it is valuable to ask questions about OIO and openEHR in order to better understand what the two systems/frameworks can and cannot do, there also needs to be mutual (and I stress mutual) respect for the different philosophies behind these two projects, and the different world-views of their creators. Andrew tends to laissez-faire individualism, and has created a tool which gives individual clinicians a huge amount of freedom when it comes to collecting data. The openEHR group tends more to well-structured collectivism which nevertheless preserves some freedom to experiment and be creative - certainly not a Stalinist approach, more a form of well-behaved anarcho-syndicalism, perhaps. Given these clearly divergent starting points, it probably serves no purpose to exhort Andrew to "...do some design work", just as it serves no purpose for Andrew to remonstrate that openEHR is "too complex". No-one is forced to use OIO to manage their data, thus the lack of formal design documents shouldn't worry people to whom such things matter. Similarly, if openEHR documents seem too complex, or the framework too restrictive, then don't read the documents and just ignore the framework. The world is a big place and there is room enough for both, and the existence of one does not diminish the other. Or at least that is how most of us see it. -- Tim C PGP/GnuPG Key 1024D/EAF993D0 available from keyservers everywhere or at http://members.optushome.com.au/tchur/pubkey.asc Key fingerprint = 8C22 BF76 33BA B3B5 1D5B EB37 7891 46A9 EAF9 93D0
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